Chapter 279 The Three Realms of Alienation
Rather than saying that Su Ming is the only person in the world who can see her, Xia Xiaoyu prefers another way of saying it, which is that she chose Su Ming to be the only person in the world who can see her.
The reason why she likes the latter statement is simple, because it sounds more romantic, which means that her meeting with Su Ming is not accidental, but destined.
"Stop it, I'm still thinking about something." Su Ming pushed the other person away expressionlessly and continued to think with his head down.
There should be no details left out in the investigation of Ding Yu, but the investigation of the Mysterious Eye is far from enough.
Considering the brief remarks made by the deputy director before, we can conclude that the Mysterious Eye has already begun to attack the Alliance.
Su Ming did not think that the Mysterious Eye could overthrow or control the Alliance. After all, the Alliance was a behemoth that gathered the strange forces of this world. It could not be controlled by one or two bug abilities. What's more, those people's abilities were no match for Xia Xiaoyu's. There was an essential difference between them and Xia Xiaoyu.
However... vigilance is still necessary, as any fortress will be breached from within.
Maybe he should give the deputy director a reminder, Su Ming thought silently.
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Flower Island.
"Chief, we have almost finished asking questions. Do we want to kill all the people here?" a young man asked seriously.
"Let's not cause trouble for now. Our goal is to kill Su Ming, not to create a big trouble in this world. This world is very strange, and there must be people stronger than us. We must be careful in everything." Ye Xiao said with a serious expression.
He looked at the notebook he brought with him when he traveled through time. This notebook was given to him by the leader of a thief group from another plane. The other party was unable to come to this plane due to some special reasons, so he asked him to come to this plane to deal with Su Ming. The notebook recorded important information about this plane.
According to the description in the notes, there is an organization in this plane, and the people in the organization have a special ability that allows them to erase their own presence.
According to the old friend's guess, Su Ming came to this plane just to kill these people.
In addition, he also gave them many practical suggestions, one of which he strongly recommended was to cooperate with the target that Su Ming was going to eliminate, and kill Su Ming together with those who could hide their presence.
There is a high chance that their Night Owl Killing Group will reach a cooperation and establish an alliance with the other party, because they want to kill Su Ming, and Su Ming wants to kill those people.
The only thing that puzzled Night Owl was what kind of special ability "hiding presence" was, was it simply invisibility, erasing the five senses, or something else.
Besides, he didn't know how to find those people now.
"Chief! What should we do next?"
Several members of the killing group walked into the room, shouting loudly, their faces full of excitement.
"Boss, I think we can stay in this plane for a while. This plane is amazing! There are many treasures called containment objects. If we can take a few hundred of them away from here, our equipment can be completely upgraded to the next generation!"
Night Owl glanced at them majestically and said coldly: "Calm down, the treasure is not so easy to get. Since it is a very powerful weapon, there must be someone keeping it?"
"Well, it seems that there is an organization like the Union Investigation Bureau in this world, which is responsible for dealing with special supernatural phenomena and keeping those treasures. They seem to be a multinational organization. We definitely can't win in a head-on confrontation... but we can steal!"
Night Owl frowned. "Transnational organization? Do you think there can be a large country on such a broken continent?"
"Uh... Boss, what do you mean? I don't understand."
Night Owl sighed and shook his head: "Forget it, let me do the brainwork, you just need to follow my orders and fight."
"Boss, you know none of us like to use our brains. How could people who like to use their brains do our business? Hahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter.
Ye Xiao fell into deep thought again. He always remembered the primary purpose of this trip - to kill Su Ming!
Now is the best chance to kill that man, or it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the only chance. As long as they can kill him, the "false peace" in hundreds of dimensions around the lighthouse will be broken, and a world where the winner is king and the strong prey on the weak will finally come. This is what their raiding group wants to see most.
Living things must abide by the laws of the food chain, which is the natural rule of the universe. Forcibly changing the laws of nature will only cause the strong to starve to death, while the weak can only survive. Only by cleaning and devouring the excess weak can the strong "fill their stomachs", and the surviving weak will not be trembling with fear of being "eaten".
The lighthouse is the cancer of the plane! And Su Ming is the cancer among the cancers, he must be eliminated!
"Boss, what are you thinking about? We have to kill Su Ming. The leader of my previous gang was killed by him. I'll also avenge my old boss!" A young woman said with a smile.
"It's not that simple. I have to choose my strategy carefully... Everything requires strategy." Night Owl muttered to himself, stroking his chin.
Night Owl now has two choices. One is to follow the advice of his old friend and look for the organization where people with no sense of existence in this world gather.
Although doing so can improve their overall combat effectiveness, Su Ming is also growing while they are looking for allies.
Everyone knows that Su Ming has super intuition. With that cheat-like talent, he can thrive in any dimension. The longer he grows, the lower his chances of success.
But if they go to kill Su Ming directly, the success rate is uncertain. After all, Su Ming arrived here long before them, and maybe he has gained enough power.
Ye Xiao was sure that Su Ming was definitely not able to deal with the hundreds of people in their killing group now, but if Su Ming joined an organization, the situation would be completely different.
"Let's continue investigating the intelligence of this world first. While looking for Su Ming, we should also look for those who can hide their presence. They should be an organization ." Ye Xiao said.
"What does it mean to hide your presence? Does it mean to make yourself invisible so that others cannot detect you?" Someone raised his hand to ask.
"Almost. It should be the literal meaning, which makes it impossible for people to perceive."
"Since others can't detect them, how can we find them?"
"There are two methods. One is to investigate through clues. Although those people can erase their presence, it should not be erased 24 hours a day. The traces they left behind will become our clues for tracking.
Another way is to let them come to us. We can spread the news that we hope to cooperate with them, and do other things to attract their attention. If they are attacked by Su Ming, they will definitely come to us in the end... But that will be a long time later, and Su Ming will definitely be very difficult to deal with at that time."
After hearing this analysis, the others hesitated and asked, "Then...what should we do now?"
"Investigate the intelligence of this world, search for information about Su Ming, and build cooperative relationships with the natives of this plane who can cooperate." Night Owl folded his hands and looked at the people in front of him. Seeing that they still didn't understand, he added, "Our old business! Do you understand?"
"clear."
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These days, Su Ming still practices with Liu Lingshan every day. With continuous practice, his mastery of alienation has been further improved. Even Liu Lingshan is surprised by his speed of progress.
Liu Lingshan had never seen anyone who could cultivate the alienation skills so quickly. In just one week, he was able to use the "thread" to wrap around his body and weapons stably. In other words, Su Ming had mastered the skills of dominance and empowerment.
The techniques of alienation are divided into three distinct realms, namely, entanglement, submersion, and fusion.
Entanglement is to extract high-dimensional power into linear form and bind it to the body.
Covering the world is to fuse and interweave the lines formed by high-dimensional power into the form of a bandage and cover the body.
The fusion state is to completely integrate the high-dimensional power in the body into a whole, like a membrane without any gaps.
There is a huge gap in strength between these three realms. Every jump to a realm will greatly improve the stability of the high-dimensional power covering the body, and the consumption of mental power will also be less.
Currently, Su Ming is already able to wrap the threads densely around his body. As long as he can maintain this state for a long period of time, he will be considered to have entered the entanglement realm.
Liu Lingshan withdrew his gaze from Su Ming and turned to look at Cass and Gu Dongshu beside him. The two of them were already able to control the lines unstably, and even if they were not in a state of mental exhaustion, they could successfully draw pure high-dimensional power.
Additionally, Cass has a stronger affinity for higher-dimensional power than Gu Dongshu, but neither of them can wrap the thread around themselves properly.
Compared with other people who can comprehend alienation, Cass is considered a genius, and Gu Dongshu is also a person with outstanding comprehension, but compared with Su Ming, they seem a little behind.
As for Catherine and Miao Weiwei, they both don't seem to have talent in this area.
Catherine can only feel the high-dimensional power for a short period of time when she is mentally exhausted, but Miao Weiwei can't even do that.
Although Miao Weiwei is the strongest among these people, she doesn't seem to have the talent to step into the higher-dimensional realm.
"Okay, everyone gather together now. It's about time I show you the magic of alienation ." Liu Lingshan shouted loudly.
Su Ming opened his eyes and walked up to Liu Lingshan with the others.
"The supernatural armor on the monster is very similar to the supernatural body skills of the alienation. The purpose of the alienation is mainly reflected in the penetration and defense of low-level supernatural powers. It is incompatible with the origin of supernatural powers... Gu Dongshu, I now ask you to swallow my hand into your body."
Liu Lingshan put his hand on Gu Dongshu's shoulder.
Gu Dongshu frowned and stood in place to activate his supernatural powers.
After a few seconds, his pupils suddenly dilated, and he raised his head and looked at Liu Lingshan in shock.
"Are you surprised? Didn't Qin Qingfeng even teach you this?" Liu Lingshan frowned.
Gu Dongshu shook his head in astonishment.
"That guy is really lazy. As I said earlier, the origins of alienation and superpowers are incompatible, so if you want to use the power of superpowers to interfere with objects in an alienated state, you need to expend more mental energy.
Your foreign aid team should have fought against demons before, right? Then you should know that using your special powers to absorb part of a demon's body requires a lot of mental energy."
"That's true, but as long as enough mental energy is consumed, the demon's body can still be devoured!"
"Well, I didn't say no."
"But why... why couldn't I put your hand back into my body just now?" Gu Dongshu asked in surprise.
"The demons you fight should not be higher than level three, otherwise you will find that you can't take in the bodies of those demons." Liu Lingshan said, "The higher the level of the battle, the more important the alienation skills are. At my level... attacks with abilities below level S are almost ineffective. Do you understand?"
Everyone was stunned. From what Liu Lingshan said, the third-level demon's damage immunity was not as high as hers!
In other words...is she stronger than a level 3 demon alone?
"So, in the eyes of people of your level, we are just trash now?" Cass asked with a smile.
Liu Lingshan nodded slightly, smiled and praised: "Self-knowledge is one of the most beautiful qualities of human beings."
"Then at your level, your supernatural powers are useless?" Miao Weiwei asked.
"It's not useless. It can also be used to change the terrain , affect the external environment, or clean up some garbage and miscellaneous fish. Then when you master the fourth level after the third level of alienation, your ability will undergo a qualitative change."
Liu Lingshan raised the corner of his mouth in a meaningful arc and glanced at Su Ming.
Su Ming was shocked. He felt that Liu Lingshan's words were directed to him specifically.
"The fourth level? Master, you just mentioned the third level yesterday, how come there is a fourth level?" Gu Dongshu looked puzzled.
"You call me instructor, but I'm not your master. I'm just entrusted to train you." Liu Lingshan corrected, "You don't need to know the fourth level so quickly. If you want to know, go back and ask your captain. Now let's start fighting each other."
"Fighting each other?"
Everyone opened their eyes wide and looked at Liu Lingshan in surprise.
"Yes, fighting each other. Have you ever seen any fighting skills that were mastered by one person through continuous training? Fighting is always more efficient than practicing on your own. Don't underestimate the IQ of your body. It is smarter than your brain."
After saying that, Liu Lingshan pointed at Gu Dongshu and Cass and said, "The two of you should pair up. You are not allowed to use superpowers. You can only use alienation to attack each other."
"You continue with your previous practice." Liu Lingshan said to Miao Weiwei and Catherine.
Miao Weiwei lowered her head and clenched her fists. She felt increasingly uneasy. She had doubts about whether she could learn the technique of alienation. She didn't seem to have the talent for it.
"Su Ming, come with me, I want to practice with you." Liu Lingshan said.
"Deputy Chief, I have a clue about that tattoo."
"What did you call me?"
"Oh, instructor."
"Call me Master."
"...Master, I have a clue about the tattoo from yesterday." Su Ming said.
"Oh~ Not bad, we'll talk about this later, now concentrate on training. Remember, alienation brings not only immunity to penetration and superpowers, but also strength bonus. By manipulating energy, you can dissolve external impacts.
I will beat you slowly from now on. If you don’t defend yourself, you will get hurt.” Liu Lingshan said with a smile.
